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I was making a bronyism joke. >_>
And theres no contradiction there. According to stuff I read earlier today, everyone is the lens overlay of three different animals. There's your year animal, there's your 2-hour-window animal, and there's the animal you most want to be. You're supposed to look at all the positive attributes for those three animals and weight most heavily the ones which all three of them have; similarly, if all three animals have a particular vice, then so do you. (So sayeth the astrologists, anyway.) So like ... Deoxys, you're neither a horse nor a sheep but are instead a Horse+Sheep+____ (whatever you most like), and you're meant to do the Venn diagram of all three animals and look to the center where all three overlap. Not trying to be hard on you, but you could have easily found this information for yourself. chinesezodiac.com, I think, was the name of the site I read it on. Was one of the very first Google hits, right below Wikipedia. Have a question? Look it up! That's how the people who answer your questions do it. EDIT: Wrote the above from my phone. This edit's from a computer. Here you go: Quote:
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But I wasn't asking a question, I was just pointing out my two given animals, although the brony joke made a loud whooshing sound as it passed over my head.
Nevertheless, you've provided a handful of interesting facts. Now for what you question in terms of what your secret animal really is, I'd imagine the site initially linked to in the first post probably has the methodology down, seeing as how they ask for the timezone of your birth. Then again, maybe they're wrong. This is interesting and fun stuff, even if I don't subscribe to the beliefs in astrology (nor will I ever). |
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>Talon Oh, wow, that sounds very intruging. Or, at least it's a little less complicated than Western astrology (This planet was here, this one was here, this one was over here...). So, is there a guide for finding your month and hour animal? EDIT: Found a site which kinda helps with it. But... I'm going to have to find out my birth time, and how that relates to where the sun is. That's tough.
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I don't know if there's a reliable one, Kind. The site that Loki linked to disagrees with Wikipedia. As Loki pointed out, you could ask two feng shui experts to make a prediction about the same thing and get two very different, even contradictory, answers. Whether Wikipedia's editor(s) got their facts right or whether Loki's site did, I don't know, but the fact of the matter is, Wikipedia argues for the years beginning and ending on certain specific days (ranging from late January to late February) whereas Loki's site seems to make brute force estimates revolving around February 4. I would not be surprised, then, if it gets other aspects wrong as well. 'Cause if it's going to brute force the years for Christ's sake, then I don't put much stock in its estimate of where the sun was in the sky at the hour of your birth.
And like I mentioned earlier: this whole business really does fall apart when you consider that the source of Chinese astrology, like Western astrology, are the positions of the planets and the stars in the sky at night -- and that you're going to see a completely different set of constellations in the southern hemisphere than you are in the northern hemisphere! So like, any of these sites -- Loki's, Wikipedia's, whichever! -- might claim that June 20, 1984 was an auspicious date because the heavenly bull passed through the lasso and escaped over the river, symbolizing that you will defeat your enemies in adulthood ... only for you to discover that since you were born in Perth, Australia and not Hong Kong, China that you saw no such bull in the sky that night and that instead you saw the princess fleeing from the serpent, indicating that you (a girl) or some other important girl in your life (if a boy) will be hounded by evil. Or something. Whether you want to put stock in astrology or not, one thing is certain: you're probably not going to get your profile correctly assessed by some drop-down menu thing hosted on what looks like a Geocities site nor are you going to get it just by looking at some Wikipedia article. There's too much shit to consider ...
Not to mention that, if you want to be super anal retentive about this, it's pretty much "too late" to get your fortune told if the astrologist wasn't there the night of your birth. Why? Because only they are likely to have noticed any of the possible signs which they'll claim influence your horoscope. Your mom, your dad, doctors, neighbors, whoever else, these folks aren't likely to remember much of anything beyond what time of day it was and where you were born. In before "NO, YOU'RE WRONG, TALON! " from someone who takes this very seriously. But that's just my 2˘. From the Chinese astrology I've seen in films or read in books, it's, uh, pretty important to have a scholar on site if you want an accurate prediction.
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For example, if someone asked what two numbers adds up to 4, someone can say 1+3, someone else say 2+2, or 0+4, etc. None are wrong, just different. |
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Okay, fair enough. Not contradictory, then, but still also not very helpful. It'd be like saying someone says "You're smart, so you must be the combination of these three smart animals" and somebody else saying "You're smart, so you must be the combination of these three animals" and the two lists only have one or even zero animals in common.
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You fail to see what I was hinting at.
The cat got cheated out of the zodiac by the rat I believe. Some people still use the cat instead of the rat (at least during a Chinese lesson this was pointed out by my teacher so disregard if she was talking nonsense, although Okami seems to agree). |
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According to Wikipedia, the Vietnamese use a cat instead of a rabbit. The Thais use an elephant in place of a pig. Other animal changes (Viet water buffalo, Japanese boar) are marginal.
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